Top Drama Movies


The Top Drama Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Drama List". Lists are calculated daily.

371. Secrets & Lies

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth Berrington
Plot: Adopted as a child, the now-grown up and successful Hortense thinks it is
time to track down her birth mother. It leads to a the rather lonely,
isolated working-class Cynthia - who does everything she can to deny the
lineage even as it exposes secrets long buried.

372. Battleship Potemkin ( Bronenosets Potyomkin )

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Actors: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin
Plot: A Russian naval mutiny occurs, which leads to riots in the streets.

373. A History of Violence

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Maria Bello, Ashton Holmes, Peter MacNeill
Plot: Set in a small town, a calm family has it's husband deemed a hero by
stopping a violent act. This brings on old thoughts and feelings from a
long time ago which brings trouble to the table.

374. Days of Heaven

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke, Sam Shepard, Jackie Shultis
Plot: After accidentally killing his foreman, a young man must flee Chicago with his young sister and his girlfriend. Going to Texas, the young lovers pretend to be siblings and secure employment as farmhands. But when the farmer takes an interest in the girlfriend, a triangle is formed that will lead to tragedy.

375. When Marnie Was There ( Omoide no Mânî )

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Actors: Geena Davis, Kiernan Shipka, Hailee Steinfeld, Vanessa Williams, Nanako Matsushima, Sara Takatsuki
Plot: Anna is a young girl who is a misfit with no friends, when illness has her move away from her foster parents out to the country, she befriends Marnie - a girl with long, flowing gold hair, among the sand dunes. But when a new family moves in, Marnie suddenly disappears and Anna learns the truth about her new friend.

376. From Here to Eternity

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Donna Reed, Deborah Kerr, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Philip Ober, Frank Sinatra
Plot: The second in command and a Captain's wife fall in love while another private is punished for not boxing during WWII Hawaii.

377. Interview with the Vampire

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea
Plot: A story of a vampire's life. He explains his hunger, his love, his lust and his loneliness.

378. The Defiant Ones

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles McGraw, King Donovan
Plot: Two men on a chain gang - one white, one black - hate each other. Yet
after an accident, they finds themselves free - but still chained
together. The two men will have to learn to work together to avoid
capture.

379. Worst Person in the World, The ( Verdens verste menneske )

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joachim Trier
Actors: Anders Danielsen Lie, Renate Reinsve, Maria Grazia Di Meo, Mia McGovern Zaini, Herbert Nordrum, Hans Olav Brenner

380. Jean de Florette

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Claude Berri
Actors: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano, Ernestine Mazurowna
Plot: An old man and his own living relative have been coveting the property
next door for its pristine spring water - perfect for watering their
flowers. When the owner dies, however, the new owner moves in. Blocking
the spring - they hope to drive the family away, but the new owner will
not give up even as his health fails and family despairs from having to
haul water from wells.

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